Designing Whisper: a semiautonomous system for database encoding

Whisper is a measurably effective user interface for extracting formatted textural data from unformatted text. Quantifiable objectives for user productivity, data accuracy and learnability were achieved by a design that integrates direct-manipulation techniques with natural language processing (NLP) capabilities. It provides a consistent and extensible user interface that will facilitate the gradual insertion of more powerful NLP as it becomes available, without disrupting established encoding productivity. The authors describe the application problem, the design approach and the empirical evaluation of Whisper